Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Performance Testing
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate - £400 £588
% change year-on-year - -31.91% -2.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

Performance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 107 83 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 88.43% 85.57% 84.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 66 99
10th Percentile £380 £513 £363
25th Percentile £463 £548 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £694
90th Percentile £750 £1,075 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -13.64% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile £12.43 £55.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £12.56 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -79.07% -14.29% -14.11%
75th Percentile £52.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £84.55 - £74.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -24.13% +38.55% -19.82%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation